[TheForge] informal heat treat suggestions

[schade at acegroup.cc]

S1 is fairly tough stuff even in the annealed state. I
think I would try one out before any heat treat. They
may already be hard enuf to pull a cork.

Bob
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On Sep 18, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:

>
>> I'd be grateful for suggestions on a shade-tree methodology for heat 
>> treating some small S1 steel forgings.
> Ive got a couple dozen corkscrews ( wurms, properly speaking) all 
> forged up and formed with the little eyes punched out.(poor widdle 
> wurms!)
>  Needless to say, there are a lot of heats ( wurms can be infuriating 
> to get right) and i don't know just how decarborized they are at this 
> point.
> S1 is an air hardening steel and the small cross section means that 
> they will cool quite quickly, especially the tips.
> Tempering also promises to be tricky because of the shape and taper.
> Do i need to process all these wurms in a welded steel box?
> Help'd be appreciated....Pete F
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